Re: fast-import and unique objects.

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2006, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90608062210h1c13ccf9p77e19072b68d49d6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910608062148u4341dabag451c3f49f1a792a1@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/7/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 8/6/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > So the new version should take about 20 MB of memory and should
> > produce a valid pack and index in the same time as it does only
> > the pack now.  Plus it won't generate duplicates.
>
> I did a run with this and it works great.

Great.

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> I'm staring at the cvs2svn code now trying to figure out how to modify
> it without rewriting everything. I may just leave it all alone and
> build a table with cvs_file:rev to sha-1 mappings. It would be much
> more efficient to carry sha-1 throughout the stages but that may
> require significant rework.

Probably a good thing. If the patch isn't intrusive it has a better chance of merging well over time and of being merged upstream -- ;-)